Knowledge, attitude and practices for physical fitness in adolescents

Original Research Article

Abstract

Present research was carried out to know about knowledge, attitude and practices in school going adolescents towards their fitness. For this 100 students of some affluent schools were selected and data collection was done by Google forms. It was found that students were very well aware of the importance of fitness in present and future life and they agreed upon the fact that healthy mind lives in healthy body and physically fit people get more popularity or opportunity in their adulthood. Still majority of the students were in the category of obesity especially in boys and they were not very keen to change this situ- ation by exercise and healthy diet. Students were not practicing exercises, yoga, medita- tion and were spending more than usual time on screen, especially before they go to sleep. It was also seen that although they had sound sleep quality but poor sleep habits. This is a very fatal situation from the viewpoint of physical as well as mental and social health perspective of our future productive generation. Special care need to be taken care of towards this direction by proper counseling sessions and motivation to the students.